Malaysia 1MDB Controversy

From the moment Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak took over 1Malaysia Development Bhd. in 2009 the fund has remained controversial. Plagued by heavy debt and questions about its management, 1MDB grew into a scandal that moved closer and closer to the heart of the Malaysian government and has resulted in numerous foreign probes.

U.S. prosecutors investigating Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s role in raising almost $6 billion for Malaysia’s 1MDB investment fund are asking questions about money flowing through accounts linked to Tim Leissner, the lead banker behind the transactions, according to people familiar with the matter.

Malaysia and Abu Dhabi have reached agreement on a partial debt settlement for embattled government fund 1Malaysia Development Bhd., the Straits Times reported, citing financial executives it didn’t identify.

Switzerland’s financial regulator fined Coutts & Co. Ltd. for violating money-laundering rules and illegally profiting from transactions associated with 1Malaysia Development Bhd, prompting Swiss prosecutors to review the decision to see if the bank should face a criminal investigation.

Switzerland’s financial regulator said it’s still investigating three private banks in relation to alleged corruption and money laundering at the Malaysian government fund known as 1MDB. A probe of UBS Group AG in the matter was closed.

A New Zealand Court has ruled that Malaysian financier Low Taek Jho’s family can change trustees holding their assets, keeping alive a fight to stop the U.S. from seizing $650 million in real estate and business investments allegedly acquired with stolen funds.

Yeo Jiawei, a former BSI SA banker found guilty of attempting to tamper with witnesses in a Singapore probe linked to 1Malaysia Development Bhd., will appeal his conviction and sentence, according to his lawyer.

1Malaysia Development Bhd. paid the interest on its bonds that were due this quarter after the debt’s Abu Dhabi co-guarantor was compelled to service the coupons earlier in 2016, which had led to the deepening of a $6.5 billion dispute.

A U.S. effort to seize about $1 billion in assets allegedly acquired with funds siphoned from 1Malaysia Development Bhd. is moving ahead over objections from relatives of the Malaysian financier at the center of the scandal.

Malaysian financier Low Taek Jho’s family is reaching far and wide to stop the U.S. from seizing $650 million in real estate and business investments the government claims were acquired with funds stolen from his home country.

Singapore plans to bar former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker Tim Leissner from its securities industry for 10 years and fined Standard Chartered Plc and Coutts & Co. over breaches related to a scandal-plagued Malaysian sovereign fund.

Yak Yew Chee, a former BSI SA private banker, became the first person to be found guilty in a Singapore case linked to 1Malaysia Development Bhd. He also became the first banker to be convicted in the global corruption and money laundering probes surrounding the Malaysian investment fund.

Singapore police identified Malaysian financier Low Taek Jho, also known as Jho Low, as a "key person of interest" in a money laundering probe surrounding 1Malaysia Development Bhd., according to testimony in court Thursday.

Relatives of the financier accused by U.S. prosecutors of playing a central role in siphoning more than $3.5 billion from Malaysia’s state investment fund are fighting attempts to seize assets acquired with misappropriated funds.

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China General Nuclear Power Corp., which bought embattled state fund 1Malaysia Development Bhd.’s power assets for $2.3 billion this year, is considering listing the business as early as 2017, people with knowledge of the matter said.

Switzerland and Singapore are bearing down on the banks linked to a corruption scandal at 1Malaysia Development Bhd., with the Swiss financial regulator saying enforcement proceedings are underway against UBS Group AG, one of six banks targeted, and the Asian city-state ordering one institution to cease operations and fining others.

Regulators ordered Falcon Private Bank to cease operations in Singapore and slammed the bank for “serious” breaches of anti-money laundering regulations in relation to its role in moving funds associated with the troubled 1Malaysia Development Bhd.

Malaysian developer Iskandar Waterfront Holdings Sdn. is considering reviving an initial public offering as early as 2017 as it steps up the construction of projects including one linked to embattled state fund 1Malaysia Development Bhd.

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Singapore authorities charged two ex-BSI SA bank employees in a case linked to an embattled Malaysian investment fund at the center of international probes, accusing them of failing to disclose suspicious transactions involving a high-living financier.

Swiss prosecutors have asked Malaysian authorities for a second time to help gather evidence in a case against those accused of embezzling funds from 1Malaysia Development Bhd. after an initial request in January went unanswered.

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Malaysia’s ringgit fell to the lowest in more than two months as a decline in oil prices and a controversy involving a troubled state fund damped demand for the nation’s assets.

Singapore filed two more charges against former BSI SA employee Yeo Jiawei as the attorney-general’s office prepares to present its case in October against the private banker involved in probes related to 1Malaysia Development Bhd.

New York’s top banking regulator asked Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to supply more information about its work for a Malaysian investment fund amid investigations into whether any money laundering, sanctions violations or other misconduct occurred.

1Malaysia Development Bhd. said its audited financial statements for 2013 and 2014 shouldn’t be relied on after U.S. prosecutors said more than $3.5 billion was misappropriated from the fund during a period that included those years.

The day U.S. prosecutors alleged massive fraud at a Malaysian state fund, it was business as usual thousands of miles away for Prime Minister Najib Razak. Attending an evening feast for thousands of civil servants, he shook hands and posed for selfies.

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Malaysia’s ringgit posted its biggest weekly drop in 10 months as lower crude oil prices and the fallout from a controversy involving a state investment firm sapped demand for the nation’s assets. Bonds rose.

Swiss authorities seized paintings by Claude Monet and Vincent Van Gogh as part of a U.S. probe into money-laundering and misappropriation involving the Malaysian development fund 1Malaysia Development Bhd.

Singapore’s central bank, which on Thursday singled out banks including UBS Group AG for lapses related to Malaysia’s scandal-riven investment fund, also put other financial firms on notice that it isn’t done probing the sector.

As U.S. prosecutors seek to seize $1 billion in assets they say came from funds misappropriated from 1Malaysia Development Bhd., investors in the state fund’s debt are focusing on whether any such holdings would be brought back home.

One apartment in Manhattan’s Time Warner Center has a 64-foot-long terrace outside a master suite with a walk-in closet, two bathrooms and a separate dressing room. A mansion in Beverly Hills features a pyramid in the middle of an indoor pool.

Malaysia’s government said it will cooperate with lawful investigations of local companies or its citizens, as U.S. prosecutors seek to seize $1 billion in assets they say are linked to a fraud trail leading from a Malaysia state fund.

The global hunt for ill-gotten gains linked to a politically connected Malaysian state investment company widened on Thursday, as Singapore vowed to take action against four banks for what it called serious lapses in their anti-money laundering controls and seized S$240 million ($177 million) in assets linked to the financial institution known as 1MDB.

More than $3.5 billion traveled a trail of fraud from Malaysia through a web of shell companies, with some fueling a spending binge on Monet paintings and luxury real estate and at least $700 million flowing back into accounts controlled by Malaysia’s prime minister.

UBS Group AG flagged suspicious transactions linked to 1Malaysia Development Bhd. to the Monetary Authority of Singapore, prompting an investigation of the accounts involved, a person familiar with the matter said.

Private bank BSI, which is being acquired by EFG International AG, is challenging a 95 million Swiss franc ($100 million) penalty issued by Switzerland’s financial regulator over the lender’s ties to 1Malaysia Development Bhd.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said he hasn’t abused his leadership positions, according to court documents filed as part of his defense against graft allegations made by his biggest critic, former premier Mahathir Mohamad.

Even in Asia’s cutthroat world of wealth management, the news of a mass defection at RBS Coutts, venerable bankers to the British royals, came as a shock.

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Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund, embroiled in a debt payment dispute with 1Malaysia Development Bhd., is seeking $6.5 billion from the troubled Malaysian state investment company as it moves the spat into arbitration.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is drawing scrutiny from New York’s bank regulator over its fundraising for Malaysia’s embattled 1MDB fund, according to a person briefed on the matter, as questions mount about the bank’s role in the international scandal.

Malaysia appointed new directors to 1Malaysia Development Bhd. after dissolving the advisory board that was headed by Prime Minister Najib Razak amid global investigations into alleged money laundering and embezzlement at the state fund.

Foreign funds are making a dash for the exit as international probes related to troubled 1Malaysia Development Bhd. widen into one of the worst global financial scandals. Overseas investors have pulled money from Malaysian stocks for a fifth straight week following the longest buying spree in two years. The FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI Index is the only decliner among major developing peers in Southeast Asia in 2016.

Global probes related to a troubled Malaysian state fund have enmeshed the biggest casualty to date: a 143-year-old Swiss bank.

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In 2010, BSI SA’s business in Asia was flying high. The Swiss private bank had increased its workforce in the region sixfold from the previous year after scooping up a third of RBS Coutts Bank Ltd.’s Singapore employees.

Singapore is closing Swiss bank BSI SA’s unit in the city-state and Switzerland began criminal proceedings against the firm, as investigations into a troubled Malaysian state fund reverberate throughout the private bank’s international operations.

Singapore is closing Swiss bank BSI SA’s unit in the city-state and Switzerland began criminal proceedings against the firm, as investigations into a troubled Malaysian state fund reverberate throughout the private bank’s international operations. Bloomberg's Shamim Adam reports on "First Up." (Source: Bloomberg)

BSI SA, the Swiss bank embroiled in global probes into 1Malaysia Development Bhd., is investigating employees and their dealings related to the embattled Malaysian state investment fund, according to people familiar with the matter.

The stepson of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak allegedly used funds diverted from a state investment company to buy properties in the U.S., the Wall Street Journal reported.

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Red Granite Pictures, a Hollywood production company that backed “The Wolf of Wall Street,” said it’s cooperating with inquiries amid a report that it indirectly obtained funds from a Malaysian state company under investigation for alleged embezzlement.

The former BSI SA private banker charged amid probes related to the troubled 1Malaysia Development Bhd. was also accused of forgery with Singapore authorities signaling they plan to bring the investigations to a close within weeks.

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1Malaysia Development Bhd., the troubled state-owned investment company whose advisory board has been headed by Prime Minister Najib Razak, has gotten a bit of breathing space.

1Malaysia Development Bhd., the state-owned investment company that defaulted on a $1.75 billion bond last month following a dispute with a co-guarantor, is reaching out to dollar bondholders to explain why it didn’t pay the interest on the notes.

1Malaysia Development Bhd., the state-owned investment company that defaulted on a $1.75 billion bond last week, is asking investors to hold off any request for early repayment on its Islamic debt, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Hong Kong bank accounts belonging to several unnamed individuals have been frozen amid global investigations into the finances of a troubled Malaysian state fund, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Singapore authorities brought two more charges against a former private banker held without bail following a probe into an embattled Malaysian state fund, while another man has been accused of corruption.

Malaysia’s central bank slapped a fine on 1Malaysia Development Bhd. and announced it was ending its investigation into the troubled state fund, drawing one line under months of probes of 1MDB’s finances.

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Bondholders of 1Malaysia Development Bhd. face the threat of more complications ahead of another bond interest payment due next month amid a tussle with Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund that has already resulted in a default.

1Malaysia Development Bhd.’s bonds maturing in March 2023 rose, halting a three-day slide on concern the state investment company may default on its debt obligations after a spat with Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund.

In the rainforests of Borneo island, the name 1MDB doesn’t mean much. About a thousand kilometers from the Malaysian capital, more basic issues are likely to return Prime Minister Najib Razak’s coalition to power in the Sarawak state election next month.

A loan dispute between 1Malaysia Development Bhd. and the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund puts in doubt the progress of the Malaysian state investment company’s debt restructuring efforts, according to Moody’s Investors Service.

Malaysia’s state investment company, already a target of global investigations into allegations of money laundering and embezzlement, has another major problem: It now faces the risk of sinking into default.

Saudi Arabia said a large donation to Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was "genuine," providing some clarity on the source of the funds amid reports the money came via a Malaysian state investment company.

1Malaysia Development Bhd., the troubled Malaysian state fund that’s the subject of global investigations, said it could be a victim of fraud if payments of $3.5 billion intended for an Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund never made it there.

Swiss prosecutors widened their criminal probe into allegations of bribery and corruption at 1Malaysia Development Bhd., and have asked Luxembourg and Singapore authorities for help with an investigation into the government fund.

New questions about Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak's involvement in the troubled state fund continue to play out. Now, we have transcripts from a parliamentary hearing highlighting the prime minister's involvement in decisions on questionable transactions at 1MDB. Bloomberg's Shery Ahn reports on "First Up." (Source: Bloomberg)

Transcripts from a Malaysian parliamentary hearing into a troubled state fund highlight Prime Minister Najib Razak’s involvement in decisions on questionable transactions that bypassed the board of directors and finance ministry.

Malaysian lawmakers sought to draw a line under the corruption allegations surrounding state investment company 1MDB, pinning the blame for financial lapses on its former chief executive and absolving his political bosses of responsibility for a scandal that’s roiled markets and sparked worldwide graft probes.

From the moment Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak took over the fund in 2009, 1Malaysia Development Bhd. has remained controversial. It was set up by the oil-rich state Terengganu and was turned by Najib into a federal government-owned development fund.

The unauthorized reference letter that led Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to suspend star banker Tim Leissner was written on behalf of a Malaysian financier tied to an investment fund at the center of an international inquiry, three people familiar with the matter said.

The prime minister of Malaysia had a message for the crowd at the Grand Hyatt San Francisco in September 2013. “We cannot have an egalitarian society -- it’s impossible to have an egalitarian society,” Najib Razak said. “But certainly we can achieve a more equitable society.”

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Switzerland’s financial regulator will investigate “suspicious” bank connections that have surfaced in leaked Panama documents and is stepping up probes into a troubled Malaysian development fund and Petroleo Brasileiro SA.

JPMorgan Chase & Co., Deutsche Bank AG and Wells Fargo & Co. have been asked by U.S. authorities to retain and turn over records that may be related to improper transfers from an embattled Malaysian state fund, according to people familiar with the matter.

Authorities in Luxembourg and Singapore are investigating transactions involving 1Malaysia Development Bhd. as the Malaysian state fund faces expanding probes into allegations of embezzlement and money laundering.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. hired the daughter of an ally to Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak around the time the firm’s bankers were pitching business to the country’s government investment fund, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing unidentified people.

A private banker at Grupo BTG Pactual SA’s Singapore unit had his bank accounts frozen and was questioned in a probe related to a debt-ridden Malaysian government investment fund, according to people familiar with the case.

1Malaysia Development Bhd. will trim its debt by 40.4 billion ringgit ($9.4 billion) once it completes agreed asset sales, Prime Minister Najib Razak said Thursday after the state-owned fund announced its latest asset-disposal pact.

Singapore has seized “a large number” of bank accounts in connection with possible money-laundering in the country, the Monetary Authority of Singapore and Commercial Affairs Department said in a joint e-mailed statement in response to queries on 1Malaysia Development Bhd.

Investigators at the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Justice Department have begun examining the role of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in a series of transactions at 1Malaysia Development Bhd., the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

Malaysia’s central bank had to take action against a debt-ridden state investment company to protect the integrity of the financial system, according to Governor Zeti Akhtar Aziz, who said an improvement in the country’s political situation would help the ringgit.

Malaysia Prime Minister Najib Razak’s biggest source of support -- his own party -- could also be the most realistic threat to his leadership.

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An audit of Malaysia’s troubled state investment company didn’t find any suspicious activity, providing a reprieve for Prime Minister Najib Razak as he fends off claims that money connected to the firm may have ended up in his own bank accounts.

Again Cruelty of Malaysian Police: Alleged to have splashed hot water on detainee

Malaysian Police brutality at Batu Caves Hindu Temple

Orang Asal Memorandum March (13/09/08)

The indigenous people of Malaysia's planned a march to the national palace to submit a memorandum to His Majesty the King was denied by Police.Indigenous peoples in Malaysia have sought recognition of their identities, their ways of life and their right to traditional lands, territories and natural resources; yet their rights have been violated. Indigenous peoples are arguably among the most disadvantaged and vulnerable groups of people in Malaysia.

Destruction of Hindu Temples in Malaysia

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Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.Mahatma Gandhi

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.Mahatma Gandhi

Hate the sin, love the sinner.Mahatma Gandhi

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.Mahatma Gandhi

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.Mahatma Gandhi

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters andphotographers.Mahatma Gandhi

I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.Mahatma Gandhi

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.Mahatma Gandhi

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.Mahatma Gandhi

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.Mahatma Gandhi

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.Mahatma Gandhi

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.Mahatma Gandhi

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.Mahatma Gandhi

One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.Mahatma Gandhi

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.Mahatma Gandhi

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.Mahatma Gandhi

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.Mahatma Gandhi

When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it--always.Mahatma Gandhi

You must be the change you want to see in the world.Mahatma Gandhi

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.Mahatma Gandhi

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?Mahatma Gandhi, "Non-Violence in Peace and War"

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.Mahatma Gandhi, 'Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13,' May 3, 1919

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.Mahatma Gandhi, (attributed)

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.Mahatma Gandhi, 1931

I think it would be a good idea.Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization

We must become the change we want to see.Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

Famous Proverbs

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Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.Bulgarian Proverb

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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.Chinese Proverb

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Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.Chinese Proverb

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.Chinese Proverb

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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.Chinese Proverb

When you drink the water, remember the spring.Chinese Proverb

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.Chinese Proverb

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.Czech Proverb

The big thieves hang the little ones.Czech Proverb

When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.Czech Proverb

Ask advice only of your equals.Danish Proverb

He who would leap high must take a long run.Danish Proverb

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.Dutch Proverb

A full cup must be carried steadily.English Proverb

Don't fall before you're pushed.English Proverb

Use soft words and hard arguments.English Proverb

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.English Proverb

Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.French Proverb

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Charity sees the need not the cause.German Proverb

Never give advice unless asked.German Proverb

Who begins too much accomplishes little.German Proverb

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.Greek Proverb

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.Indian Proverb

Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.Indian Proverb

Praise youth and it will prosper.Irish Proverb

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.Irish Proverb

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.Italian Proverb

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.Italian Proverb

The best armor is to keep out of range.Italian Proverb

Don't stay long when the husband is not at home.Japanese Proverb

Fall seven times, stand up eight.Japanese Proverb

If you believe everything you read, better not read.Japanese Proverb

Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.Japanese Proverb

One kind word can warm three winter months.Japanese proverb

The reverse side also has a reverse side.Japanese Proverb

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.Japanese Proverb

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.Jewish Proverb

Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.Jewish Proverb

Don't live in a town where there are no doctors.Jewish Proverb

Don't look for more honor than your learning merits.Jewish Proverb

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.Jewish Proverb

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.Jewish Proverb

Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.Jewish Proverb

Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either.Jewish Proverb

What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.Jewish Proverb

Worries go down better with soup than without.Jewish Proverb

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.Kurdish Proverb

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.Latin Proverb

It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.Latin Proverb

Never give a child a sword.Latin Proverb

A smiling face is half the meal.Latvian Proverb

Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.Malayan Proverb

Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of goats.Malayan Proverb

Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.Native American Proverb

Hold a true friend with both hands.Nigerian Proverb

If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.Oriental Proverb

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.Persian Proverb

Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.Scandinavian Proverb

Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.Scottish Proverb

The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), De Amicitia

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.Colette (1873 - 1954), The Pure and the Impure, 1932

Being friendless taught me how to be a friend. Funny how that works.Colleen Wainwright, Communicatrix, 11-09-07

Have no friends not equal to yourself.Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.Czech Proverb

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.Dale Carnegie

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.Dame Edna Everage (1934 - )

Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.Franklin P. Jones, Saturday Evening Post, November 29, 1953Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.George Washington (1732 - 1799)

Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 - 1986)

All people want is someone to listen.Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, May 8, 2003

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.Japanese Proverb

Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.Jay Leno (1950 - )

True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), The Spectator, March 17, 1911

It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998A good friend of my son's is a son to me.Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986

If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002

Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.Madame de Tencin

It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.Marlene Dietrich (1901 - 1992)

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.Pierre Charron

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

It's a lot like nature. You only have as many animals as the ecosystem can support and you only have as many friends as you can tolerate the bitching of.Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 08-16-05

Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 11-07-05

The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better.Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 09-07-06

There isn’t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren’t really living without it.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, August 27, 2003

When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 4, 2003

You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a woman’s name and claim to love her.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, October 20, 2003

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)

Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.Saadi (1184 - 1291)

The friendship that can cease has never been real.Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD), Letter

To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC), The War with Catiline

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.Thucydides (471 BC - 400 BC), Peloponnesian War

I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Prehistoric Ice Man, 1999

Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.Unknown, (often attributed to Albert Camus)

Kahlil Gibran Quotes (1883 - 1931)

Every man loves two women;the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born.Kahlil Gibran

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.Kahlil Gibran

God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.Kahlil Gibran

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.Kahlil Gibran

If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.Kahlil Gibran

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.Kahlil Gibran

If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.Kahlil Gibran

In the sweetness of friendship; let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.Kahlil Gibran

It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.Kahlil Gibran

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.Kahlil Gibran

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'Kahlil Gibran

The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain.Kahlil Gibran

The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.Kahlil Gibran

The optomist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.Kahlil Gibran

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.Kahlil Gibran

Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.Kahlil Gibran

In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath.Kahlil Gibran, 'Narcotics and Dissecting Knives,' Thoughts and Meditations, 1960

It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.Kahlil Gibran, 'On Giving,' The Prophet, 1923

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.Kahlil Gibran, Essay on Robert Frost, quoted in N. Y.. Times: Obit-Editorial, April 1982

And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

He who does not seek advice is a fool. His folly blinds him to Truth and makes him evil, stubborn, and a danger to his fellow men.Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body.Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

They deem me mad for I will not sell my days for gold; I deem them mad for they think my days have a price.Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), The Broken Wings

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

Marriage is the golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping, For only the hand of God can contain your hearts.Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), The Prophet

You give but little when you give of your posessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), The Prohpet, 1923

Love is know the pain of too much tenderness.Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined.Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), The Prophet

You give little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), The Prophet

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite.Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), The Prophet

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;For love is sufficient unto love.Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), The Prophet

You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief, But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), The Prophet

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), The Prophet

For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?Verily, when good is hungry is seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), The Prophet

Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.But you are life and you are the veil.Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.But you are eternity and you are the mirror.Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), The Prophet

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?And what is it to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), The Prophet

And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the final hour of separation.Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), The Prophet

Quotations by Albert Einstein

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.Albert Einstein

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.Albert Einstein

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.Albert Einstein

Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.Albert Einstein

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.Albert Einstein

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.Albert Einstein

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.Albert Einstein

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.Albert Einstein

If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.Albert Einstein

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge...Albert Einstein

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.Albert Einstein

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.Albert Einstein

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.Albert Einstein

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.Albert Einstein

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.Albert Einstein

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.Albert Einstein

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.Albert Einstein

The important thing is not to stop questioning.Albert Einstein

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.Albert Einstein

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.Albert Einstein

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.Albert Einstein

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.Albert Einstein

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.Albert Einstein

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.Albert Einstein

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.Albert Einstein

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.Albert Einstein

Truth is what stands the test of experience.Albert Einstein

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.Albert Einstein

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.Albert Einstein

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.Albert Einstein

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.Albert Einstein, "Geometry and Experience", January 27, 1921Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.Albert Einstein, "Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium", 1941

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.Albert Einstein, 'Out of My Later Years,' 1950

It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.Albert Einstein, 'Treasury for the Free World,' 1946

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.Albert Einstein, (attributed)

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.Albert Einstein, (attributed)

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.Albert Einstein, (attributed)

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.Albert Einstein, (attributed)

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.Albert Einstein, (attributed)

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.Albert Einstein, (attributed)

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.Albert Einstein, (attributed)

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.Albert Einstein, (attributed)

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.Albert Einstein, (attributed)

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.Albert Einstein, (attributed)

At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.Albert Einstein, (attriibuted)

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.Albert Einstein, Observer, Jan. 15, 1950

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form.Albert Einstein, quoted in New York Times, March 19, 1940

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.Albert Einstein, Telegram, 24 May 1946

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.Albert Einstein, The World as I See It.

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio

Imagination is more important than knowledge.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), on atomic energy, Jan. 22, 1947

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), "Autobiographical Notes"

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.It is the source of all art and science.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Physics and Reality [1936]

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Out of My Later Years

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), On Education

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make the day's work like a happy child at play.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (referring to America)

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), when asked to describe radio

Theories should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

To my mind to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavor. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of GodAlbert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artistAlbert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Results from Internet Collections: alt.quotations Archives:Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), 1929

"I want to know Gods thoughts.... all the rest are just detailsAlbert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

"Imagination is more important than knowledge.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

"My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, Of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?Albert Einstein.

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Imagination is more important than knowledge.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), 1879-1955

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex ... it takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

When all think alike, no one thinks very much.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most People are even incapable of forming such opinions.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

My sense of God is my sense of wonder about the Universe.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

We still do not know one-thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

He who cherishes the values of culture cannot fail to be a pacifist.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

It is characteristic of the military mentality that nonhuman factors (atom bombs, strategic bases, weapons of all sorts, the possession of raw materials, etc) are held essential, while the human being, his desires, and thoughts - in short, the psychological factors - are considered as unimportant and secondary...The individual is degraded...to "human materiel".Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest sceintists are always artists as well.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this counrty is closely related with this.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence - these are the features of Jewish tradition that make me thank my stars that I belong to it.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), The World As I See It (autobio, 1934)

If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs, it would be Buddhism.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Gary Young M.D.'s lecture on chaos theory and Buddhism in Oregon State University on 04/17/03 (SGI-USA)

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books - a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It's the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and science. Whoever does not know it can no longer wander, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

If my theory of relativity proves to be correct, Germany will claim me a German, and France will claim me a citizen of the world. However, if it proves wrong, France will say I’m a German, and Germany will say that I’m a jew.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

So long as there are men there will be wars.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

It is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Let us not forget that knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. ... I claim credit for nothing. Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insects as well as for the stars, Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Dilip Kumar Roy, (famous Indian classical singer), had cited the above quotation of Einstein in one of his letters to his disciple M.S.Subbalakshmi, another famous Indian singer and Magsayee Award

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the life- long attempt to acquire it.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

It's not that I'm so smart , it's just that I stay with problems longer.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Sc

No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), quoted in Scientific American, September 2004, page 69

So long as there are men there will be wars.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Letter, 24 March 1954. Quoted in "Albert Einstein: The Human Side," edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Associated Press, April 15, 2005, "100 Years Ago, Einstein Changed Everything,"

Buddha"s Quotations (563 BC - 483 BC)

If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.Buddha

Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.Buddha, The Dhammapada

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.The Buddha

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC), The Dharmapada

Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone beside yourselves. And those, who shall be a lamp unto themselves, shall betake themselves to no external refuge, but holding fast to the Truth as their lamp, and holding fast to the Truth as their refuge, they shall reach the topmost height.Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)

Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee.Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC), The Dharmapada

The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings.The Buddha

As the flectcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)